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Freshman orientation on Capitol Hill is a chance to hug, hope and watch the votes keep rolling in. Several races are still too close to call.

Maxwell Frost, 25, became the youngest congressman in history while Democrat Maura Healey of Massachusetts goes down in the history books as the first openly lesbian governor in US history

WASHINGTON — Come January, for the first time in 234 years, every U.S. state will have sent a female representative to Congress.

Vermont was the last state to have never sent a woman to Congress. But on Tuesday, Democrat Becca Balint won her race, and will become the first woman and first LGBTQ person to represent the state.

Maxwell Frost, a 25-year-old Democrat, defeated a Republican in his Florida congressional race

The home stretch of the midterm election campaign is a good news, bad news phenomenon for LGBTQ activists

August 11, 2022

Trump-backed candidate wins another nomination and progressive Ilhan Omar ekes out close race in latest polls.

Ron Johnson, the most vulnerable Republican senator up for reelection this year, will take on Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in a general election matchup that will help determine which party controls the Senate

For some races that could be hot in the fall, there were no contests in Tuesday’s primaries in Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota and Wisconsin. But voters were filling a House vacancy representing Minnesota for the rest of the year, and could be setting the stage for Vermont to be the last…

For some races that could be hot in the fall, there were no contests in Tuesday’s primaries in Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota and Wisconsin. But voters were filling a House vacancy representing Minnesota for the rest of the year, and could be setting the stage for Vermont to be the last…